In accordance with the proposal, which was presented by the Minister of Internal Affairs to the PSP unions and GNR associations, the €300 increase would be paid in three installments, €200 in July and the rest at the beginning of 2025 and 2026, with raise of €50 each year.

With this proposal, the fixed component of the current supplement for service and risk in the security forces will rise from €100 to €400, while maintaining the variable component of 20 percent of the basic salary of GNR soldiers and PSP police officers.

Initially, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Margarida Blasco, began by meeting with the seven PSP unions, but later in the afternoon, the five GNR associations joined the meeting.

Meanwhile, the Autonomous Police Union Association, which is not part of the platform of PSP unions and GNR associations, and the Independent Union of Police Officers (SIAP) and National Police Union (Sinapol), which belong to the platform, abandoned the negotiations because they didn’t agree with the proposal.

The president of SIAP, Carlos Torres, told journalists that “they abandoned the negotiations because the counter-proposal that the minister presented is still too short”.

As maintained by Carlos Torres, this will be the last proposal presented by the government.

“SIAP doesn’t agree and if it doesn’t agree, it can’t continue at the negotiating table”, he said, admitting to future forms of struggle.

Carlos Torres emphasised that SIAP does not agree that “a Judicial Police security guard earns more in mission supplements than a PSP police officer”.

The president of the National Police Union, Armando Ferreira, also told journalists that “the meetings are over for Sinapol”.

Armando Ferreira explained that “there are no more meetings with the minister, even without an agreement”.

“We don’t know what the government will decide now. The lives of some policeman cannot be worth more than other policeman. We can’t accept this value”, he detailed, adding that Sinapol has asked all the preliminary groups to meet in order to find a legislative solution.

This was the fourth proposal that the Minister of Internal Affairs has presented to the PSP unions and GNR associations.

The platform made up of 11 PSP unions and GNR associations presented the government with a counter proposal, proposing that the risk supplement be increased by €300 this year and another €300 in 2025, rising from the current €100 to €700.

The platform advocates that the €600 increase be paid in phases between this year and 2025.